Re: the better OS to use for older hardware ?

In article <>, robb
<> scribeth thus
>I have not been keeping up with hardware and OS changes of late
>(3 yrs... ok 8 yrs) and i was wondering if there is a better OS
>to install on older hardware.
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>Eg Dell inspiron 8100 PIII/866 Mhz
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>and by better i mean something faster, smaller and less buggy
>than my recollection of M$ windoze bloatware unless their newer
>OS solved all the earlier versions ( 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP ...)
>quirks :}
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>I was looking for something different /fun/interesting to play
>with on the old notebook. Does not need to be commercially
>supported or have a large pool of commercial app knock offs.
>
>thanks for any helpful advice,
>
>robb
>
>sorry sci.elec.misc group but you guys seem to do this stuff
>alot and you have been helpful in that past
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Try Ubuntu Linux, seems to work fine on a couple of old PC's here...
--
Tony Sayer

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